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  1. Re:I've a suggestion to keep you all occupied... on Was That A Tsunami? · · Score: 0

    Let's worry about terrorism instead.

  2. Re:Open source equates to freedom. on The IRS vs. Open Source · · Score: 1

    America is "free"? The only more capitalist place is "communist" China.

  3. Re:Color me surprised... on Scores of Vulnerable SAP Deployments Uncovered · · Score: 1

    You mean you didn't learn ABAP and can't understand tables named with German acronyms?

  4. Re:I can explain on Scores of Vulnerable SAP Deployments Uncovered · · Score: 1

    I was on an SAP project in 2000. They were $20M into the implementation and changed course. Then they switched to Oracle for an expected $30M. The software never materialized from Oracle.

  5. Re:Screw The Big Traders on HFT Nothing To Worry About (at Least In Australia) · · Score: 1

    They don't have an advantage. They think they have an advantage. Professional traders see HFT as adding liquidity to the market and don't see them as competition. That says quite a bit in itself.

  6. from four years maintaining blogs on KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't add value to the conversation, it's probably spam, or at least doesn't belong in a permanent archive. One problem is the subjective nature of such a decision. Another is how much time it takes to decide when one must process large numbers of comments. I don't see this as a free speech issue. They can "speak"...elsewhere.

  7. Re:Keypad on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they patented something and the other car companies didn't want to license it.

  8. Nope. Proximity limits who you can date in reality. The internet eliminates that limitation. If you live in a town of very few people, your chances of meeting the right person are...different.

  9. Re:Who is the market? on Mozilla, Foxconn Confirm Firefox OS Partnership · · Score: 1

    China is probably the target market, as they don't want Apple or Google to control everything.

  10. Re:Let's compare the two on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 0

    Remember that we will eventually we will need to dispose of those vehicles as well, which could have some effect on the environment.

  11. Re:Let's compare the two on No, the Tesla Model S Doesn't Pollute More Than an SUV · · Score: 1

    What about the environmental costs in the production of the car itself? Mining for special metals, shipping between continents, etc. I don't know details about TSLA, but this was one argument against the Prius.

  12. Re:Anyone else remember? on HP Chairman Raymond Lane Steps Down · · Score: 1

    Agreed (scopes are definitely not my forte). I meant in general, good products actually work against a company. Take corningware - they made really good pots and pans that almost never broke, but I think they stopped selling them because eventually people didn't need new pots and pans.

  13. Re:Anyone else remember? on HP Chairman Raymond Lane Steps Down · · Score: 1

    > 50 years later and it still works fine That kind of product makes it harder to sell new product. Which is one reason why technology is so disposable today.

  14. Re:This is horrid on Automated System Developed To Grade Student Essays · · Score: 1

    Totally different. My college essays could have been much better if they had allowed me to type.

  15. Can I take them... on Google Glass and Surveillance Culture · · Score: 1

    Can I take them into a public restroom or gym? Is it against the law, or would I only have to worry about getting them crushed off my face?

  16. Re:Just Stop! on Radio Shack TRS-80 Vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans · · Score: 1

    It will be even less funny when someone reads their headlines tomorrow.

  17. Synthetic Biologists on Biological Computer Created at Stanford · · Score: 2

    I think it is more interesting that we have created synthetic biologists (as per the summary).

  18. what insurgency? on NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens · · Score: 1

    "looking for 'counter-insurgency activity'" - what insurgency?

  19. What about... on Ban On Loud TV Commercials Takes Effect Today · · Score: 1

    What about audio advertisements on the Internets, such as on Hulu (which specifically seems to lengthen its ad breaks every few months)? Why not a ban on the sound of alarm clocks in all ads, which is clearly a tactic to wake people who fell asleep before turning off the media? What about a ban on mandatory warnings and previews on digital media disks for which we pay? What about annoying HTML and Flash flyover ads on web pages?

  20. Re:Great potential on Auto-threading Compiler Could Restore Moore's Law Gains · · Score: 1

    Who are you calling a monad?

  21. Re:Sellout and build rockets with Musk on Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? · · Score: 1

    Absolute zero is cooler than outer space.

  22. As long as they can clone our leader from his nose on Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons · · Score: 1

    As long as they can clone our leader from his nose, who cares if they can engineer this (see 1973's sleeper http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070707/ ). In case my country's secret services are listening, that was an attempt at a joke,

  23. Re:Backward News. on Why Klout's Social Influence Scores Are Nonsense · · Score: 1

    Even worse, the slashdot summary says klout is a "new" social media service. How long can a "new" description last on the Internet? I seem to remember some laws about how long companies could keep the "new" label on "new" products. Seems that should even be shorter for Internet concepts.

  24. Re:The truth is on Riot Breaks Out At Foxconn · · Score: 1

    How could this become "a fight among workers" in international news I wondered.

    Security are workers too.

  25. Re:Yes, it does matter. on Does Grammar Matter Anymore? · · Score: 1

    I shot a man walking down the street.